So who was PORTER in Porter Creek, anyway?

Since it is Saturday, I thought you might be interested in the 'PORTER' in the Creek. Well, the Yukon Prospector's Association has a nice little bio, by Frank McKenna here. It seems that Porter staked the PUEBLO claim in the Whitehorse Copperbelt back in the day. Although Jack McIntyre (McIntyre Creek??) staked the first claim here, ("Copper King"), the Pueblo was the more successful in that it was the only mine working by 1912. There was a nasty accident at the mine in 21 March, 1917 in which many people were killed.

Porter was also in on the beginning of DIVISION coal deposit in Carmacks, etc. Take a look at that bio, Porter was an active guy in Yukon's mining history.

Three men, with familiar names, applied to the mining recorder for permission to make use of Porter Creek (note that the creek is ALREADY "Porter") for mining and milling purposes: HE PORTER; JOHN MCINTYRE and WP GRAINGER.

As to Porter's full name, it was "Hibbard A Porter" (from a formal application he made, now at the Yukon Archives). As a further lesson in skepticism, note that Coutts' "Yukon Places and Names, 2d ed, 2003, says that Porter died in 1907; but McKenna's bio says he lived on, happily married at least until 1912.